Neuville (9e25 pt) – Buxerolles (11e24 pt)
Clifford Delarue, the Buxerollois, and Othmane Bénichou, the Neuvillois, pose the issues and keys to a determining match for their future at the regional level. A derby that will have an additional emotional charge for the Neuvillois staff, Badr El Brahmi, the principal coach, absent all week, having lost his father last weekend. A minute of silence in his memory will be observed before the meeting.
How do two teams cut on paper to compete in the top of the table find themselves playing their survival in R1 two days before the end of the season?
Clifford Delarue (Buxerolles coach): “It is an accumulation of things and there would undoubtedly be enough room to note everything. The mistakes we have made in this season are made and I don’t see the need to come back on it. In any case, the seasons follow each other and are not alike. In football, everything goes very quickly, in one direction as in the other. For us as for Neuville. »»
Othmane Bénichou (Deputy Coach of Neuville): “As the season progresses, some things did not turn. We have also not put the ingredients it needed when it was necessary. And then, and above all, we had a very short, too short workforce. For quite some time, we have only been alternating thirteen players on the match sheets. »»
Which of your training is, in your opinion, on the best dynamic currently?
C. D. : “I admit that I do not dwell too much on Neuville. On our side, we can say that we come back from afar and a few weeks ago, we no longer believed it too much. Some had already buried us. The group had a nice pride reaction. »»
O. B. : “Buxerolles is on a good dynamic, that’s for sure. But can this dynamic change something? In this type of match, it is the mind that takes over. The involvement that we put in the moment. What happened before does not count much. »»
Could a draw satisfy everyone?
C. D. : “Certainly Neuville but not us. The ideal would be for the two teams to keep themselves, but a draw would make us depend on the others on the last day. While with two victories in the last two games, we would ensure the maintenance. »»
O. B. : “Maybe for us. But we are no longer really in calculations today. We are with us, it’s the end of the season, we are looking for maintenance, so we have to win. Win so as not to depend on other results, win to finish on a positive note. »»
What will be the keys to this capital match?
C. D. : “It is a derby therefore, automatically, there will be intensity accentuated by a strong issue. I would say that we have to remain in the continuity of what we have been doing for several weeks. Do not go wrong, be an actor and not a spectator of the event by taking advantage of the present moment. And especially that the best wins. »»
O. B. : “There is a little wear, no doubt, in this group which ends an exhausting but certainly very formative season. It will take mind, determination, surpassing oneself and display a large collective. This is what will make the difference. »»
Saturday 7 p.m., René-Garnaud stadium.
